The Photoshop file was printed out at a 10% scale and fits exactly to the Jiffy box. If you don’t have photoshop here are the finished images (10.3Mb).
#HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN GAME CONTROLLER DOWNLOAD#
If you’d like to build my exact controller, you can download my Photoshop file here (75Mb) and edit it as you see fit. This was worthwhile, as I found my original design had the labels covered up buttons surround, and my original design had the engine dials too close to the Eject button making it too difficult to use. Once I was happy with the design I printed it out on regular paper and attached it to cardboard and did a test fit of all the buttons just to make sure everything would fit in place, and I would have room behind it all to wire it up. I thought about using Letraset to do the lettering but a much easier method is to print out the design on adhesive paper and use that as my guide to drill the holes too. I also when with the greenish-blue background. I wanted to make mine look like an aircraft instrument, so I labelled each button and dial with an aircraft looking font and surround them with white boarders to group them. You could skip this step entirely, the other builds I’ve seen people make look good with just being left blank or use carbon fibre contact. I was not able to get the flaps to work being assigned to an axis and instead used this dial for engine cowling output shutters I would recommend setting up your controls before buying or building anything to make sure that each control supports being assigned to an axis. The Teensy2.0 board supports 6 analogue inputs, I knew I wanted two sliding dials for separate engine throttles, so the other four-axis could be dialled for water & oil radiators, fuel mixture, and flap position. It is so much better being able to set the water and oil radiator positions by turning a dial, rather than holding down Ctrl+Plus & minus and waiting for it to count up. In a game like IL2, there are still a lot of commands that I don’t have buttons for, but I now have enough to do the most common things such as engine management. Once you’re done, be sure to tag me on Instagram are the parts that I used in my build and the rough costings, but you should spend some time thinking about what controls you want to be able to do and the best type of button suited for it. If you’d like to build your own, hopefully, this guide will help.
#HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN GAME CONTROLLER ANDROID#
I used a Teensy 2.0 Android board to interface with the computer, once all set up Windows detects it as a game controller, and plugs in via a USB Cable. The buttons would be spread out and have a distinctly different tactile feel so I could find them while wearing the VR. I decided to build my own game controller that would allow me to have move buttons and more analogue controllers for things like adjusting radiator positions and fuel mixtures. The only downside of flying in VR is you can not see the keyboard anymore, and not having enough buttons on my joystick to do everything you need to take off, land, and drop bombs on the enemy made flying difficult. Being able to look around the cockpit at all the instruments, look out the windows, move forwards towards the gunsight and turn your head around in all directions keeping an eye out for the enemy is the best use of VR I’ve seen.
Soon after building this however I picked up an Oculus Rift S Virtual reality headset and have never looked back.įlying in VR is amazing.
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